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Read more.Optimus G successor will use Snapdragon 800 processors
LG and Qualcomm tonight announced that the follow-up to 2012's LG Optimus G flagship smartphone will use the Snapdragon 800 processor. The as-yet unnamed phone (it's not been ...
Read more.Qualcomm targets emerging markets with 6 new additions to Snapdragon 200 line
We tend to focus on the top-tier "super" phones here, but we should never forget that the important market is made of the people who don't yet have a ...
Read more.Google promoting Google Play Music when connecting to Starbucks free Wifi
Logging into free Wifi at Starbucks? Now you'll be shown a free trial offer for Google Play Music All Access
Starting this week, Starbucks and Google have partnered up ...
Read more.This week's sidebar poll: Does Google Play have all the apps you want?
Does Google Play cover all your wants and needs in the app department, or are you left wanting? Tell us in this week's poll
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MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
OptionsThird-party replacement MacBook batteries recalled for fire risk
Retailer Best Buy is recalling 5,100 third-party battery replacements for the black and white MacBoo...
Read more.Third-party replacement MacBook batteries recalled for fire risk
Retailer Best Buy is recalling 5,100 third-party battery replacements for the black and white MacBoo...
Read more.First OS X 10.8.5 beta seeds to developers
Apple has begun seeding the first beta of OS X 10.8.5 to developers. The initial release is listed ...
Read more.First OS X 10.8.5 beta seeds to developers
Apple has begun seeding the first beta of OS X 10.8.5 to developers. The initial release is listed ...
Read more.Texas firm sues Apple over iPhone's call forwarding features
A Texas company, Bluebonnet Telecommunications, is suing Apple for patent infringement in relation t...
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Gizmodo
OptionsThe Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Pussy People
The Feds Say That Two Guys Made an X-Ray Weapon to Sicken People
In an attempt to "secretly sicken opponents of Israel" and presumably star as the bad guys in a barely believable action movie, two guys from New York have been accused ...
Read more.Awful JPEG Compression Turns Romeo & Juliet to LB"8DJ IHR:?S
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo. Even if you failed English class, you'd recognize that phrase anywhere. It's from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. But would you recognize ...
Read more.The Hilarious Difference Between Google and Bing in One Picture
You use Google. Or maybe, just maybe you use Bing. Sometimes one is better. Sometimes the other is prettier. Sometimes it's the other way around. Whatever. The most hilarious ...
Read more.How a Used Bottle Becomes a New Bottle Again
Recycling! It's good for the planet, or something. It's also a very sensible thing to do. But how does the bottle you just drank out of become a ...
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Wired Top Stories
OptionsStation to Station: Artist Transforms Train Into Experimental Cross-Country Studio
Experimental artist Doug Aitken's latest project involves taking a group of artists and musicians across the country on a ten-city train tour.
Read more.What's the Best Trailer Ever? Film Maestros Weigh In, and You Can Too
It's hard to pick favorites, but that's what we asked our academy of experts to do. Then we took a crack at it.
Read more.Secrets of a Trailer Guru: How This Guy Gets You to the Movies
You don't know his name. But if you care about trailers you know his work: iconic previews for films like The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ...
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ZDNet
OptionsApple's iPad Mini pricing: Did it miss the tablet death blow?
The iPad Mini expands the total addressable market for Apple and strengthens its hammerlock on the tablet category. But Apple could have delivered a death blow to rivals with a ...
Read more.SK Hynix posts small Q3 operating loss
Spike in demand for mobile and flash memory chips helps South Korean chipmaker limit the impact of a slumping PC market to book an operating loss of US$13.6 ...
Read more.Conroy gives blessing to Telstra acquisition of Adam Internet
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has no problem with the telecommunications giant gobbling up the long-standing Adelaide-based ISP.
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Lifehacker
OptionsBlurry Android Photos, Windows 8 Gestures, and Jedi Parenting Tricks
Readers offer their best tips for fixing blurry shots from your Android camera, turning off annoying Windows 8 gestures, and tricking your kids with Jedi mind techniques.
Every day we ...
Read more."A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skillful Sailor"
Whether everyone's on your case, you aren't feeling motivated, or you just feel like you suck at something, we all feel a little discouraged from time to time ...
Read more.How do you keep track of your reading list?
Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions ...
Read more.Ad-Blocker Ghostery Actually Helps Advertisers, If You "Support" It
If you've read our features on how to protect your privacy and stop everyone from tracking you on the web, you've heard us mention Ghostery. It's a ...
Read more.Kotaku Microsoft Is Removing Xbox One DRM | Gawker Paula Deen Says 'Of Course' She Uses the N-Word |
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Kotaku
OptionsXbox One DRM Reversal Is Proof That Speaking Out Can Get Results
Complaining on the internet, I am often told, doesn't amount to much of anything. Clicking "Like" or retweeting for a cause are nothing more than "Slacktivism," a type of ...
Read more.Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Pulled From App Store, BGII On Hold
Well, this is a drag. Citing contractual issues, the people who made Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition have removed it from sale on their site and the Apple App store ...
Read more.How To Easily Upload Your Animal Crossing: New Leaf Screenshots
Taking a screenshot in New Leaf is simple: press L and R at the same time. Boom. You've got a picture. Great! Getting those pictures off your 3DS, while ...
Read more.Francis Is Freaking The Hell Out About Microsoft's Xbox One About-Face
You knew he was gonna have an opinion about Microsoft's flip-flop on Xbox One DRM. And lo, Francis, one of the most excitable video-game personalities on the Internet, has ...
Read more.Today, Microsoft Did The Right Thing And Everybody Won
I have to admit, it was exciting. It was a kick watching "evil" Microsoft get their ass handed to them by gamer-loving "good guys" Sony. Sure, that was a gross ...
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TechCrunch
OptionsRocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The “Amazon Of Southeast Asia”
Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the “Amazon of Southeast Asia,” announced today that it has landed another $100 million from returning investors ...
Read more.30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed
As has been written ad nauseam, we’ve seen a lot of activity in the wild and wacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry’s ...
Read more.EMC Acquires Israeli Storage Startup ScaleIO For $200M-$300M To Compete Better With The Cloud Kings
Palo Alto-based ScaleIO is one of a new generation of startup storage providers that’s using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at ...
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AppleInsider | Frontpage News
OptionsAnalyst recants claim that Apple will add Retina display to iPad mini before 2014
NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim has reversed his earlier prediction that Apple would add a Retina resolution to its iPad mini at some point before 2014.
Read more.First benchmarks for redesigned Mac Pro reportedly appear online
Just over one week following its sneak preview at WWDC 2013, the radically redesigned Mac Pro has supposedly shown up on a popular Internet based benchmarking site running what appears ...
Read more.Best Buy recalls 5,100 third-party MacBook batteries for fire risk
Best Buy announced on Wednesday that it is recalling 5,100 MacBook Pro batteries built by third-party manufacturer ATG after a number of users reported their units caught fire.
Read more.Twitter heat map shows iPhone use by the affluent, Android by the poor
A map plotting the location and device platform of over a quarter billion mobile tweets show predominate use of iPhones in affluent areas and Android in poor regions, with scant ...
Read more.IDC gives Apple 9% of Chinese smartphone market, double the prevailing growth rate
IDC has ranked Apple the fifth largest smartphone vendor in China, assigning it a 9 percent share of the 78 million smartphones sold in Q1. While the market grew by ...
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CNET
OptionsLG Optimus F7
Editor's Rating: 
User Rating: 
Good: The LG Optimus F7 has a vivid 4.7-inch screen, a zippy dual-core processor, and excellent battery life.
Bad: The Optimus F7 has slow ...
Read more.Samsung Galaxy Amp (Aio Wireless)
Editor's Rating: 
User Rating:
Good: The entry-level Samsung Galaxy Amp runs Android 4.1, gives strong call quality, and has a solid 5-megapixel camera.
Bad: There's no LTE ...
Read more.TiltShift Video (iOS)
Editor's Rating: User Rating:
Good: TiltShift Video lets you fine-tune all the elements that make up the tilt-shift effect and apply them to both photos and video.
Bad: There ...
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USA TODAY Tech News
OptionsTwitter #Music service waiting to trend
iTunes Radio could provide a boost to Twitter #Music this fall.
Read more.Martian smartwatch still a little spacey
Stylish smartwatch has some cool features but suffers from a few bugs.
Read more.Apple TV adding HBO Go, ESPN
Streaming media device adding apps from ESPN, HBO.
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AnandTech
OptionsLG to include Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 in next Optimus G Series Smartphone
Hot off the heels of the Snapdragon 800 benchmarking event in San Francisco, LG has dropped a press release by noting that its next Optimus G series smartphone will include ...
Read more.Competitive Overclocking: The GIGABYTE OC Lab and HWBot.org
Every field has enthusiasts – the users that obsess over the smallest details to get the best, to be the best, and excel in their field. Well it turns out you ...
Read more.NVIDIA to License Kepler and Future GPU IP to 3rd Parties
Earlier today NVIDIA announced that it would begin licensing its Kepler GPU architecture to 3rd parties. This is a sensible next step for NVIDIA, but an unprecedented one among the ...
Read more.Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) Performance Preview: Qualcomm Mobile Development Tablet Tested
We’ve written about Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) before, for those unfamiliar, this is Qualcomm’s new flagship SoC with four Krait 400 CPUs at up to 2.3 GHz, Adreno ...
Read more.Building a mini-ITX Haswell System with ASUS [video]
For our final installment, JJ put together a bunch of components for a mini-ITX Haswell build and took us through his build process. The motherboard itself is a Z87-I Deluxe ...
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Fast Company
OptionsThese Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind
Metadata in Twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location, the language you speak, the phone you use, and more. They're also a mapmaker's best friend.
Twitter ...
Read more.A&E, History Channel, Lifetime Begin Streaming To Android
A&E Networks is launching streaming Android apps for their three channels which will include past season archives for cable/satellite subscribers.
A+E Networks, the parent company of A ...
Read more.Signals In The Sky: Google Announces "Project Loon," Balloon-Powered Internet
Google's latest initiative to help connect more people to the web is full of air--literally.
Google is taking to the air. The online giant has announced plans to test ...
Read more.What It's Like To Be A NSA Cyberspy
Working at the NSA isn't all surveillance scandals and parking problems.
The National Security Agency hires IT staff like crazy. So do associated contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton ...
Read more.The Fro-Yo Wars Are Heating Up
We catch up with Amit Kleinberger, CEO of rising Frozen Yogurt giant Menchie's, to learn about the fastest-growing frozen dessert category.
Amit Kleinberger is the 33-year-old CEO of Menchie ...
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OptionsMicrosoft Takes Back Its 'Always-On' Connection And Used Game Policies For Xbox One
Xbox One Microsoft
The most unpopular features of the new game console are getting scrapped, Microsoft has just announced.Microsoft faced some very negative feedback when it announced that its ...
Read more.A Motorcycle Helmet With A Heads-Up Display
Motorbike helmet with built-in navigation system and voice-controlled interface LiveMap
This Indiegogo campaign wants to sell a voice-controlled, augmented reality motorbike helmet for $2,000.
Russian inventors have created a ...
Read more.Study: People Are Mean To Their Unattractive Co-Workers
The Office, U.S. NBC
"Hot or Not" as research tool.A study led by an associate management professor at Michigan State University sought to answer the Question of Our ...
Read more.Bacteria Live At 33,000 Feet
Samples From the Sky NASA
Awesome! Now what?
AWESOME!Earth's upper atmosphere-below freezing, nearly without oxygen, flooded by UV radiation-is no place to live. But last winter, scientists from ...
Read more.Megapixels: A Mars Simulation In The Sahara
Astrobiology Simulation Katja Zanella-Kux
If Mars is a little far, try scenic eastern Morocco.In February, astrobiologist Gernot Grömer found himself on Mars in the midst of a desert storm ...
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Mashable!
OptionsMultitalented Teen Is Ultimate Ladies' Man
There are two ways most teenage fellas try to attract the ladies: play sports or play music. If you play one, you're probably doing alright. If you play both ...
Read more.Join Us Live From Facebook's Mysterious 'New Product' Event
A small group of Facebook employees have been working on “something big,” which the social network is set to unveil on Thursday.
The press event for Facebook's "new product ...
Read more.'Man of Steel' Reviews: This Looks Like a Job for … Twitter!
With Man of Steel in theaters and doing monumental box office numbers, the film has quickly become the hottest commodity of the summer.
Reviews for the film have been generally ...
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